Considering Jennings only averages about 35 in 1st class cricket unless he starts next season with a couple of centuries I doubt he will get near an England squad in the foreseeable future. Denly deserves his chance now.
So, the " Home Counties" lads to open tomorrow.
Fingers crossed that this latest pairing are a big success.
re Ashes tickets. I got some in the ballot for the saturday - confirmation email and payment taken. Husband hasnt heard yet. Just logged into his lords account, and went to the ticket page, and there was a buy now button next to tickets he'd applied for in the ballot. He clicked on it, and bought them. got an email shortly after confirming the payment which looks v similar to my email i recieved. no idea why or how but worth having a look if you haven't heard yet about your allocation.
he's just told me he had to update his bank details on there, so it may be special circumstances that he was allocated some without payment being taken. a key piece of information that would have been helpful 5 minutes ago when i posted the above. anyway, worth logging on anyway to check if you haven't heard. nothing to lose.
this years haul of tickets:
ashes 3 days oval ashes 2 days lords ashes 1 day edgbaston he's got 1 day old trafford for a stag do.
also got world cup tickets for eng v aus at lords.
he's just told me he had to update his bank details on there, so it may be special circumstances that he was allocated some without payment being taken. a key piece of information that would have been helpful 5 minutes ago when i posted the above. anyway, worth logging on anyway to check if you haven't heard. nothing to lose.
this years haul of tickets:
ashes 3 days oval ashes 2 days lords ashes 1 day edgbaston he's got 1 day old trafford for a stag do.
also got world cup tickets for eng v aus at lords.
oh and st lucia next weekend.
happy cricketing 2019!!
Got my knockback email tonight. Still not too worried as I've got Day 1 and 2 at Lords via MCC friend and various days at the Oval plus 1st day of the series at Edgbaston.
Fantastic knock by Duckett for the Lions today by the look of it. Would love it if he sorted out his problems against spin and came back into the reckoning as opener (after Denly has his go of course)
Denley's spin should also allow Broad to come in for Rashid, which will give Curran a reprieve. Denley's no Warne with the ball but is probably as good as Chase. He is also an excellent fielder but I hope they don't expect him to go short leg.
I don't think Jennings will be "cold shouldered" by the management in the same way the dozen or so other discarded openers have. Half our tours are now to the sub continent. There is something about him that they appear to really like.
I think the lack of red ball openers posses big questions, out of the 50 odd specialist openers in County cricket we end up picking a guy that bat's at 3 in the second division.
Would Boycott be chasing those wide balls and try to hit them on the up in the way that Denly and Burns have? The score is still 0-0 so absolutely nothing has been gained in doing so.
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I got some in the ballot for the saturday - confirmation email and payment taken. Husband hasnt heard yet. Just logged into his lords account, and went to the ticket page, and there was a buy now button next to tickets he'd applied for in the ballot. He clicked on it, and bought them. got an email shortly after confirming the payment which looks v similar to my email i recieved. no idea why or how but worth having a look if you haven't heard yet about your allocation.
this years haul of tickets:
ashes 3 days oval
ashes 2 days lords
ashes 1 day edgbaston
he's got 1 day old trafford for a stag do.
also got world cup tickets for eng v aus at lords.
oh and st lucia next weekend.
happy cricketing 2019!!
Still not too worried as I've got Day 1 and 2 at Lords via MCC friend and various days at the Oval plus 1st day of the series at Edgbaston.
I think the lack of red ball openers posses big questions, out of the 50 odd specialist openers in County cricket we end up picking a guy that bat's at 3 in the second division.
Cook
Burns
Denly
Root
Bairstow
Stokes
Buttler
2 of Curran/Woakes/Ali/Leach depending on the surface
Broad
Anderson
Broad in for Rashid
England put in to bat
A great toss to win.
Good luck Rory and Joe.
Come on Super Joe.
Come on Joe
4-1 Burns out.